Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Honore de Balzac

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Honore de Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Oscar Wilde

Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party

William Shakespeare

Her beauty makesThis vault a feasting presence full of light.

Lord Byron

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

David Rittenhouse

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

Izaak Walton

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

Francis Quarles

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

Francis Quarles

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

Francis Quarles

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Homer

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Giorgio Vasari

The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

J. M. Coetzee

I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.

H. G. Wells

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

George Herbert

True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.

George Herbert

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Debbie Ford

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

Stella Young

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

John Hurt

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

Hunter S. Thompson

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.